Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
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March 31, 2007
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Remember the situation at Columbia where a group of students disrupted a speech by the founder of the Minutemen, jumping up on stage and preventing him from speaking? As I feared, the university has done pretty much nothing in response....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:39 AM • 35 Comments
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The West Michigan Freethought Association has made the video of my talk available on their website. It's in MP4 format as a video podcast. For those who can't view that format, I may have another format available at some point...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:26 AM • 9 Comments
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I found these videos from a band I really liked, Mr. Bungle. This was a band that Mike Patton formed after Faith No More broke up. The music was almost indescribable, an odd mix of funk, metal, rap and performance...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 7 Comments
March 30, 2007
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Man, this guy just gets loonier and loonier. Check out this post on his blog where he says I'm breaking the law in the UK: I have already discussed many of the evils of attempts to ban commenters by means...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:43 AM • 35 Comments
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A reader left a link to one of these videos and it was great. I'd never heard of Roy Zimmerman before, and I generally don't care for people who do musical comedy with funny songs, but some of these are...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments
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The ADF has filed suit against the state of New York over a policy that allows state buildings to be rented by community groups for events but not by religious groups. It is truly incredible to me that New York,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:22 AM • 4 Comments
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Dale Carpenter continues his brilliant fisking of David Blankenhorn's Weekly Standard article at the Volokh Conspiracy. This time he's focusing on the argument that you often hear from gay marriage opponents that claims that gays aren't really interested in getting...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:14 AM • 11 Comments
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I really like this post by PZ Myers debunking the frankly silly claim of creationist Rob McEwen that mutation can't create "new DNA structures" (what is it with creationists and their obtuse language?). His answer is a good one and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:06 AM • 20 Comments
March 29, 2007
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Jason Rosenhouse attended an ID conference in Knoxville last weekend and has been posting about some of the presentations there (Part one, part two, part three). Part three is very interesting as it is primarily about the ID argument about...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:49 AM • 5 Comments
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A Federal court in Michigan just issued a permanent injunction barring the school district in Monroe, Michigan from enforcing a rule that prohibited students to hand out pro-choice literature to their fellow students before and after school and during lunch....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:36 AM • 41 Comments
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Joseph Farah, grand poobah of the Worldnutdaily, has written yet another ignorant screed about separation of church and state. But let me first acknowledge a partially correct statement on Farah's part. He is responding to an entirely too broad statement...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:27 AM • 12 Comments
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And you thought Kirk Cameron and his banana were ridiculous....wait till you see this video. Evolution is false because we don't find new life forms every time we open a jar of peanut butter. Seriously funny stuff....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 7 Comments
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For those who might be interested, the BBC has an audio interview with Genie Scott of the National Center for Science Education on their webpage. There's also a disturbing picture of her with Ken Ham. Then again, any picture with...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:10 AM • 9 Comments
March 28, 2007
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Dale Carpenter has a post at Volokh responding to this article from MIchael Blankenhorn, which makes a relatively moderate argument against gay marriage. What's interesting to me is how much ground the most literate and reasonable gay marriage opponents have...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 3:51 PM • 56 Comments
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But not for long. Greg Raymer's account on Poker Stars was cracked by a brute force hacker, who then brilliantly opened up a bunch of tables and began dumping chips to the same player hand after hand. Apparently he was...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:43 AM • 5 Comments
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Most of my readers know about the Day of Silence, a day when many kids in high schools around the country don't speak at school for the day to call attention to anti-gay bigotry and bullying. Well now a religious...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:35 AM • 31 Comments
